Arrived via overnight train then bus to Hampi and found a nice guesthouse that a girl I met on the bus was staying at.
Had a nice lunch in a rooftop cafe with temple views enjoyed a cold limca. This place gives me a real holiday feeling. It is quite touristy with lots of guest houses and restaurants and stalls but it is all intermingled along meandering streets with cute little houses, feels like a chilled out little village.
Walked up some steep stone steps at the end of the bazaar ruins up into a huge mound of boulders. The view in all directions is spectacular. The dry, orangey rock formations are bizarre and contrast the amazingly lush oasis's of banana and rice plantations amongst which the ruined temples are scattered. For some reason it makes me think of scenes I imagine from the Bible of rocky mounts from ancient times.
Many people and animals (chickens, goats, cows, dogs) live in the ruins of the covered bazaar – the colours of the make shift houses are beautiful and it all combines to make a very rustic, picturesque scene. Along with the normal macaque monkeys there are also lots of very long limbed, black faced monkeys – need to find out what they are.
Bought some bananas from a stall and as I was walking home one of the cows starting following me so I gave in a gave him a banana and a cuddle.
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